Rand Paul: Obamacare’s ‘biggest whopper’

Sen. Rand Paul says the “biggest whopper” of Obamacare isn’t that people can keep their plans if they want to — it’s that the program would reduce the deficit.

“They told us that this would pay for itself. That it would actually reduce the deficit. That’s one of the big whoppers among a bunch of lies,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday on Fox News’s “Hannity.”

Paul also hit President Barack Obama on misleading Americans by saying they could keep their insurance plans.

“Disingenuous is a nicer word for lying,” Paul said, adding that the White House “never told us” that people could lose their doctor or insurance plan if it didn’t meet the new requirements.

“He sold it completely the opposite. He said, ‘If you have your doctor, you have your insurance plan you’ll be able to keep it.’ That wasn’t honest with the American people. Now they’re saying some of you can keep your doctor,” Paul said.

Paul also repeated calls for the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who will testify Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “I hope what we hear [Wednesday] from Secretary Sebelius is her resignation. I would say that hers is an extraordinary level of incompetence, even by government standards,” Paul said.